03/09/2026
What is Pirts?
Pirts is a traditional Latvian sauna practice, it's a deeply rooted ritual that brings together heat, nature, herbs, movement, breath and connection.
At the heart of Pirts is the Pirts ritual where heat is combined with fragrant herbal blooms, traditionally made from branches of various trees including Birch, Oak, or Linden.
The gentle sweeping and fanning of heat over the body allows the warm scented air to move around you and create a deeply immersive experience.
Pirts is traditionally much more than a place to sweat. It accompanies every stage of life, from birth to death.
Pirts can be a place for cleansing, healing, celebration, preparation, and transition. It played a role in important moments of community and family life.
In this way pirts was not just a building or a bathing practice.
It was a sacred and practical place woven into the fabric of life. Connecting people with their bodies, their community, their ancestors, and the natural world.
Today, many people discover pirts as a powerful way to slow down, reconnect, experience traditional rituals in a modern world.
And perhaps this is what makes pirts so spacial.
It isn't just about heat, it's about life.
